Another horrendous Angela Kang episode

I think they meet (the writers and producers) at the beginning of every season and lay out basically where they want to be by mid-season, and at the finale. Unfortunately this year they haven't been nearly ambitious enough. The whole season goes from Negan subduing Alexandria to the beginning of the all out war scenario. That's it. Not nearly enough story to support a whole season so there's been a tremendous amount of filler material. It's like okay, we have sixteen episodes to shoot and there can't be a confrontation with Negan yet - so what do we do this week? That's no way to plan out a series. Don't get me wrong, there have been some great scenes in almost every episode. They just throw in too much other stuff that really doesn't add to the story and seems to be there for the sole purpose of filling time.

In the last episode, if they wanted to have Sasha and Rosita bond why not let them walk and talk at the same time? Instead they did all that tense walking mostly in silence and then talked once they got to the Sanctuary which burned up twice as much time. Some of the scenes with Eugene and the Saviors were cool, but they didn't need to devote an entire ep. to that. Too much time has been wasted with each Alexandrian brought to the Sanctuary being shown around and seeing the same things over and over. Like the hot iron ritual. The burning of that guy's face in front of Carl was more than sufficient, we get the point. Like I said, most of the tangent episodes that veer away from the main plot had great scenes in them. If you combine several (follow multiple characters at once) you could keep all those scenes and wind up with a single nicely paced episode instead of three overlong ones that drag. All out war should've been underway by mid-season. It should not have been postponed until season 8, that was a very poor decision. 16 episodes is a good sized order and there need to be multiple major plot points every season.

The real attraction of TWD was always that it was tense and unpredictable; anything could happen in any given episode, you never knew when a shocking development would come out of nowhere. They need to recapture that sense of a show that hits the ground running every season and doesn't stop until the credits roll on the finale. One way or another I think they should consider a total break with the comic storyline going forward. Trying too hard to stay true to the print version has held them back, imo.

The intro from last night being like a prescription drug ad, that made me laugh. They do have that style don't they? I'd love to see the pharmaceutical companies throw in random shots of screaming people being devoured by walkers in between all the happy folks smiling at each other, running through fields, playing with their kids, and all that. Maybe right at the points when the voiceover reading (very quickly) through the list of side effects says things like "which could be life threatening" or "may lead to death".   

Not meaning to be rude but 'starting to' ?? Have you only just figured that out? lol

lol I've noticed the quality of the show going downhill for awhile now, but people (on IMDb) always encouraged me to stick with it.  They claimed the Negan story line would be the greatest thing ever so I think I overlooked how bad it has gotten because I felt it was going to get better....but it hasn't.  If anything this is the worst season yet.

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I see your criticisms here. No offense though. You and JRiddle should get together and write a review since he has some of the same criticisms that you do.